Erik Bernhardsson
AI LeaderFounder & CEO @ Modal Labs
New York, NY
Founder of Modal Labs, the high-performance serverless cloud for developers that reached unicorn status ($1.1B valuation) in September 2025. Previously spent 7 years at Spotify where he built the music recommendation system and created Luigi, the popular workflow scheduler. Also built Annoy, one of the first open-source vector databases based on ANN search.
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erikbern starred imbue-ai/offload
erikbern starred imbue-ai/offload · March 9, 2026 13:14 imbue-ai/offload Offload your test computation to ephemeral compute Rust 12 Updated Mar 13
erikbern starred boson-ai/FeynRL
erikbern starred boson-ai/FeynRL · March 5, 2026 18:38 boson-ai/FeynRL Lightweight, modular framework for training large models with a focus on scalability, clarity, and hackability. Python 68 Updated Mar 13
Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors
Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software engineers? Why do I love infrastructure? Is open source dead? I think a lot of these things, and some more things, all have their roots in a big shift in how we build software. Or...